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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-631/
- Published: 2022-08-06T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-06T11:12:02.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

“It’s absolutely tupuna intervention.”

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s member’s bill to ban seabed mining was drawn from the ballot tin this week.

The Maori Party co-leader says, “\[TTR\] always underestimated iwi, they always underestimated the weight, the significance of our kaitiakitanga and mana whenua, the significance of the Tiriti – they always underestimated us.

> What’s really great is there’s a better understanding of indigenous rights and tangata whenua rights than when we started eight or nine years ago. \[…\]  
>  
> Now it’s up to us to put it to the Prime Minister and state, ‘You’ve been over to Samoa, you’ve invested in so many others and made your commitment to climate change, so here’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is and support us.”

Read more [here](https://www.teaomaori.news/seabed-mining-ban-bill-drawn-ballot-tupuna-intervention?fbclid=IwAR3hZDSYVKrlcwYKysGqENEIRfdyXMPe7aL4aWlaBZywBXKO4zseypxF7Nw&ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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